Family Quote by Peter De Vries Download Open image “Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?” — Peter De Vries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Family Reason Starting
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles.… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important… — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Like so many other families, we too have faced crises, difficulties, and heartbreak. — Jim Bob Duggar Copy Share Image
Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad… — Maureen Andeson Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was bright enough… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image